Cultural Experience
Essays

Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin White Masks. Trans. Charles Lam Markmann. New York:

This paper recounts a cultural experience from the past year. This experience is evaluated along a number of different dimensions. These include some of Hofstede's cultural dimensions, Schwartz's cultural dimensions and also in terms of stereotypes and confirmation. The implications of my findings for business are also discussed, especially in terms of labor-management interaction.

The Japanese and American languages and cultures are quite different, so it is not surprising that I had some difficulty when traveling alone to an inn at a small Japanese village where the residents still do not speak…